Garen with Swain
How to Synergize Garen and Swain
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Garen Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Swain
Tips for Playing as Garen with Swain
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Advice to Understand How Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Garen Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Garen in LoL
The Garen Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Garen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Swain helps Garen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen plays on the same team as Swain, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Swain does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Swain on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Swain does a decent job of covering Garen in team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Swain?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Garen that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Swain is a pretty good ally for Garen. By playing on the same side as Garen, he raises their win rate by 2.3% to 51.0%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Garen and Swain that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Swain comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Garen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Garen and Swain together, you will not be granting your side very much crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Garen to synergize with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Garen and Swain synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Swain than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 51.0% when playing alongside Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Garen and Swain pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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